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   iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 08:28:15 JST iced depresso
   japan when drawing: :ablobcatgooglytenor:
   japan when actually doing anything: :blobcatsuit: why yes we are all issued the same business suit at birth
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 08:28:10 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     Seems fake.
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     Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 08:28:11 JST Alex

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     @icedquinn For sure, and I think it's a consequence of how their society was for a long time. Without such a long "medieval period" in cultural isolation, I think their society would have been profoundly more unhealthy: open to both Christianisation and colonization. But the downside is the genesis of what we see now.
     
     Did you know that Yakuza were formed as a civilian (peasantry) response to Samurai being allowed to kill those of lower class than them at will? Samurai would engage in "crossroad killings," where they tested out new swords on unarmed peasants who happened to cross their path. Yakuza were formed as militia to resist and kill them.
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 08:28:12 JST iced depresso

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     @hermit i respect bits and pieces of it. i think the shikata ga nai thing goes way too far though.
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     Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 08:28:14 JST Alex

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     @icedquinn It's utterly bizarre, a society of beautiful dreams but such rigid conditions of existence. I really admire Japanese people who follow their hearts anyway, and damn the social consequences (Kowloon Kurosawa, Hirasama Susumu, Ishiwatari Daisuke etc.)
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     Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 08:30:02 JST Alex

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     @bot @icedquinn Go waste your time researching it in order to "BTFO" me then, you terminally online loser!
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     D'Annunzio (weltanschauung@sneed.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 10:43:51 JST D'Annunzio

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     @hermit @icedquinn @bot you need to use your head. Do you really think samurai would waste their tax revenue just for testing a blade?
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     D'Annunzio (weltanschauung@sneed.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 10:46:05 JST D'Annunzio

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     @icedquinn @hermit @bot do you think the other daimyo would let that go unpunished?
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 10:46:07 JST iced depresso

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     @Weltanschauung @hermit @bot they might if they're peasants from a competing daimyo
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 10:47:36 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     Why aren’t you stopping it?
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 10:47:37 JST iced depresso

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     @Weltanschauung @hermit @bot we let homeless people get killed all the time *right now* :blobcatshrug2: